For one reason or another, Internet culture has latched onto the stories of author H.P. Lovecraft as a source of cultural humor, specifically his end-all monster, Cthulu. This modern upswing in interest in Lovecraft's iconic horror stories has resulted in a number of fun bits of entertainment ephemera. One of the most extensive is a board game called Arkham Horror, a cooperative adventure in which a series of strange characters have to race against time and battle an army of horrible monsters to stop an ancient nightmare from rising in the modern world.
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